version: '3.1' services: ghost: image: ghost:5-alpine restart: always ports: - 2368:2368 environment: # see https://ghost.org/docs/config/#configuration-options database__client: mysql database__connection__host: db database__connection__user: root database__connection__password: example database__connection__database: ghost # this url value is just an example, and is likely wrong for your environment! url: http://localhost:2368 # contrary to the default mentioned in the linked documentation, this image defaults to NODE_ENV=production (so development mode needs to be explicitly specified if desired) #NODE_ENV: development volumes: - ghost:/var/lib/ghost/content db: image: mysql:8.0 restart: always environment: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: example volumes: - db:/var/lib/mysql volumes: ghost: db: